About once or twice a month, our apartment complex has a local food truck show up to the leasing office for an evening and serve a smaller, just as delicious menu for the residents of our complex. Tonight's truck was Tamarindo and I had never even heard of them before I received the flyer on my door earlier today. At the top of my flier: "The Tamarindo Truck is out and about serving up fresh and authentic Mexican food across Orange County. Our concept is simple; bring the best that traditional Mexican food has to offer to the streets of Southern California". Sounds good to me! I had to go check it out!

The menu tonight had about ten items on it, and they were all completely different and a great variety of meat, fish, and veggie items. I decided to try two items tonight, the "Drunkin' Torta" and the "Tacos Dorados". The Drunkin' Torta sounded awesome: Skirt steak marinated in Bohemia cerveza, black bean and garlic spread, Oaxaca cheese, arbol chile salsa, Bohemia cerveza grilled onions, micro greens, and tomato on a fresh baked mexican bolillo roll. It was decent... the flavor of the steak was excellent, except there was hardly any of it in the torta. It was mostly beans, which is great, but then call it a black bean torta. I was also surprised out how under-flavored everything else was. This was not something that I would order again if I ever end up at this truck. It was alright, but not great. Everything was fresh like they advertised, which is nice.

Now, onto the Tacos Dorados: Potato tacos mixed with panela cheese, Oaxaca cheese and epazote. Topped with lime infused cabbage salad, pickled red onions and carrot-habanero salsa. Garnished with fresh chopped epazote and cilantro. Daaaaaamn these were GOOD!!! The tortillas were hand rolled corn tortillas,fried up nice and crispy and the flavor of the potato mixed with the panela cheese was just amazingly good. I also seemed to forget that habaneros are hot as hell, so when I went for this thing, I maybe should have asked for the salsa on the side, but it was also fabulous. Really, really, REALLY spicy hot, but very good. These were worth the walk out to the truck with the splitting headache that I have.

All in all, Tamarindo has some good food, at fair prices, and is worth the trip, in my opinion. I think the next time I will try their ceviche... stay tuned! :)